Beautiful Sailing Ships

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An upgrade from 18th century East Iindiamen, armed and painted to look like men o' war, were the lighter built Blackwall frigates and used in the India Australia trade from the 1850's , as the need for heavy armaments declined. Blackwall frigate was the colloquial name for a type of three-masted full-rigged ship built between the late 1830s and the mid-1870's at Blackwall yard on the Thames.. Over 120 Blackwall frigates were built by British and Indian yards. The Blackwall frigate had a single gallery and was so named partly because it was superficially similar in appearance to a frigate of the Royal Navy. With only a single gallery, the hull-lines at the stern could be very fine and combined with relatively fine underwater lines at the bow, Blackwall frigates were fast sailing ships, although not as fast as the clipper ships that appeared in the late 1840s. Another feature of early Blackwall frigates was a highly rounded hull at the bow above the waterline. HMS Nothfleet- note 11 ports on side- some Blackwalls had up to 15 on a side..<enlarges: having already posted an Indiaman in this thread, I tracked this under 'painted gunports on merchantmen' etc> leading, ultimately, to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwall_frigate Essentially an era of evolving mixed design: clippers; Blackwalls Frigates; 'semiclippers'; and 'windjammers'... http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/66808.html HMS ‘Seringapatam’ (11 ports-although some etchings show 15?? ) At this scale, the model represents a ship measuring 152 feet in length by 25 feet in the beam and an approximate 900 tons. 'Although the name would suggest an armed fighting vessel, the Blackwall frigates were sailing merchantmen built between 1837 and 1869 for the Indian trade following the expiration of the East India Company’s exclusive charter in 1833.'